Fan Mobilization: #ReleaseTheSnyderCut

Zack Snyder in 2016 at San Diego Comic Con Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikipedia Fandom Online More often than not fans across a wide spectrum of entertainment are talking about the things they love online. Whether it be appreciation, a bizarre meme, or just talking about how attractive a character is, social media serves …

From Gamers to the World, the Unusual Rise of Discord

PAX East 2015 Photo by Kyle Gaddo via Flickr Throughout the past few years Discord has quickly risen to become one of the most popular and prolific social media platforms in the world. Starting off as a platform “by gamers, for gamers” it quickly shifted in the past year to become a more serious, legitimate …

Lifting the Blindfold: The Birth and Future of the 1619 Project

By The New York Times - https://www.colorlines.com/sites/default/files/styles/embedded_image/public/images/articles/2019/08/1619project-2019.jpg?itok=J6jN2QOI&timestamp=1565802226, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81415884 Started in August of 2019 on the “400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery” the 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from the New York Times Magazine. The project seeks to change the framing of how American history is taught, putting the “consequences of …

The Power of Grassroots: What led us here?

Bernie Sanders at a rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, Photo by Lorie Shaull The rise of widely accessible social media platforms has afforded new and powerful tools for local civic engagement and organization, making it a key part of the last three presidential elections. Powerful local initiatives are called Grassroots movements or actions, and have …

Twitter Trends: What are we looking at?

We live in an increasingly rapid digital world, and websites like Twitter are becoming the main spreaders of information and news. You can pop on your timeline, see posts and bits of information shared by friends, sort through a personally catered “What’s Happening” tab, and discover what’s trending across the site. All of what you …